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Mr. Kissinger/Governor Reagan:
12/15/72
12:35 p. m.
RR:
Henry?
HK:
Ron, howare you?
RR:
Pretty good.
HK:
I saw your television show the othernight--Ididnst enjoy it anymore
than you did.
RR:
But I sure had some familiar and nostalgic notes out of it.
I called because this isn't just curiousity or wanting to find out
anything, but Henry at the risk of being very presumptuous,
and not knowing all of the facts of course because only those of
I
you there who are handling them do know them--can I tell you some-
thing that made me feel nostalgic --
HK:
Sure.
RR:
As say--you've been there and maybe this is totally unnecessary-
but when you were talking of course I remembered Penh wa Huang (sp)
which for all those years, we had the same problem with them, but
way back in the 40's Penh wen Swuam (? turned out not to be a surprise
to me--here in Hollywood and I'll brief this as much as I can--We had
a great cataclysmic upheavel under the guise of a jurisdictional strike--
HK:
Yeh.
RR:
We actually had, although we never used the word cxpxexxxxxg openly and
didn't do any redbaiting, we had a small group of Hollywood unions
that had come under total communist domination and they used this
jurisdictional gimmick to bring about this attempt to close down the
motion picture industry. The actors were the key--if they could keep
us out obviously the studioes closed down--we continued to go to work.
And I was President of the Guild at the time and Henry for seven
months--I'm not exaggerating--twice - a day--seven days a week, I
led a group of actors that met with the leadership of these communist
unionists trying to arrive at a solution that would save the business
and I have got to tell you that when --you even used the
right
number-
when you said 15 the other night--I used to come home night after
night scattered through those seven months and say hey I think it's
all set-we met again at 10 o'clock tomorrow morning to just finalize
it and I think we've done it. At 10 the next morning, they'd welk in
with their lawyers and all of a sudden there'd be 15 new demands layed
out on the table that we'd never heard of before and it was always as
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